“We were interviewed a few times, with questions like ‘What are the issues you are fighting for? And what do your husbands say about this?’. We would get the women to write what they wanted to say on their hands.“

“What the media wanted was for us to be cute. They wanted these little women who don’t speak English to be standing up to their husbands. That was their angle. But that was not our angle. It was the work that we wanted to talk about.”